http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002650390Oh my.
It's always funny, watching the primitives wiggle-waggle their armpits at each other about history.
Edweird (7,825 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
FDR *DID*NOT* HAVE A FILIBUSTER-PROOF MAJORITY DURING THE 73rd CONGRESS!
This is during the much storied 'first hundred days'. He passed much of the major legislation of the First New Deal without a single cloture petition having been filed.
For those who don't know, the 73rd Congress sat 1933-1935.
What the weird primitive says is true, but it changed by the 75th Congress, which sat 1937-1939.
More on that later.
quinnox (11,904 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. I love it when threads are ALL CAPS
It tells me that the point being made is VERY IMPORTANT, at least to the person posting it. We need MORE ALL CAPS TITLES. I don't find it OBNOXIOUS in the least.
Fumesucker (25,036 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. Personally I love one liner OPs..
Sad that we don't get nearly as many as we used to..
LaydeeBug (3,107 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
12. as I don't find passive aggressive sh!t that adds NOTHING to the discussion to be obtuse or anything
I love it. it says soooooo much about the person who posted it, and their sense of themselves.
Finally, the primitives settle down to discuss the matter:
Kaleva (7,130 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. True but the rules about filibustering were different then.
unblock (21,417 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
4. republicans were different then, too....
spanone (63,529 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
5. he *DID NOT* have this ****ing congress...full of ignorant teabaggers
dsc (36,770 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
7. Oh really?
No the majority weren't racist hacks but the solid south sure was. Take out Huey Long, who may have moved to the governship by then anyway, and the Southern senators were racist hacks one and all. They would make today's tea partiers look like the Kumbaya crowd.
Uh, Huey Long was govern of Louisiana
before he was a U.S. senator.
BumRushDaShow (7,443 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
8. He also didn't have TV pundits going 24/7 or in reality, any TV AT ALL.
ProSense (83,446 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
9. Wrong
Not only were the filibuster rules different and there were zero filibusters, but also there were only 96 Senators. Democrats had 61 percent to 62 percent of the vote.
The nonsensical "black" primitive is right, as to 1933-1935, but keep reading.....
Edweird (7,825 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
15. I'm sure you wish the legacy of FDR would just disappear.
I mean, not only do we all know how much Obama admires Reagan but the fact that Obama and FDR had approximately the same majorities during their first term and we got the New Deal from FDR and a bunch of excuses about how Obama's hands are tied must eat you up.
Okay.
franksolich was always amused by nadin's allegations that the evil Republicans "blocked" major legislation four years later than this, during 1937-1939--I forget which bills the round one cited--and that the evil Republicans kept her grandparents and her father (then a small child) from emigrating to the United States in 1939, and so they had to go from Poland to Mexico instead.
As bad as the situation for the Republicans was in 1933-1935, it was even worse four years later.
During the 75th Congress, 1937-1939, there were 96 U.S. senators, 17 of which were evil Republicans. There were 435 U.S. congressmen, 89 of which were evil Republicans.
I don't think Republicans had a whole lot of say in legislative or immigration matters in that Congress.
Of course, it changed in a hurry in the mid-term elections of 1938, for the 76th Congress.
